Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Avodah Zarah 40:12

אין מוכרין להן וכו': ת"ר מוכרין להן אילן על מנת לקוץ וקוצץ דברי ר' יהודה רבי מאיר אומר אין מוכרין להן אלא קצוצה שחת על מנת לגזוז וגוזז דברי רבי יהודה ר"מ אומר אין מוכרין להן אלא גזוזה קמה על מנת לקצור וקוצר דברי רבי יהודה ר' מאיר אומר אין מוכרין אלא קצורה

One should not sell them anything attached to the soil. Our Rabbis taught: One may sell them a tree with the stipulation that it be felled and he then he felles it, the words of R. Judah. R. Meir says: We may sell them only a tree that has already been felled. Low-growth, with the stipulation that it be cut and he then cuts it, the words of R. Judah. R. Meir says: We may sell them only when it has already been cut. Standing grain, with the stipulation that it be reaped and he thens reap it, the words of R. Judah. R. Meir says: We may sell them only when it is reaped.

Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah

In all three of these disputes R. Judah allows a Jew to sell a non-Jew various plants attached to the soil (in the land of Israel) as long as he stipulates that the non-Jew will cut the plant down and not take possession of the land. But R. Meir is stricter and rules that the Jew may sell only the cut down product.
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